Speculative Nonfiction: Writing Beyond the Known
with Joanna Penn Cooper
This course includes:
4 course modules full of readings, prompts, and craft lectures.
2 hourlong video interviews.
7 helpful handouts and guided audio meditations.
Dozens of prompts and exercises to inspire you.
Perfect If: You want to write nonfiction that explores beyond the known.
Open To: Nonfiction writers and aspiring nonfiction writers of all levels.
$149.00
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You’ll Leave This Course With:
- A thorough grounding in speculative nonfiction: nonfiction writing that finds new truths beyond established, objective fact.
- Insights and inspiration to incorporate imagination, intuition, and wonder into your nonfiction writing.
- New doorways into your nonfiction writing, with numerous meditations, readings, and prompts to guide your progress.
FREE BONUS: If you buy during our Summer Sale through August 4, you’ll get live support for your writing (a $295 value!)—read below for details.
Explore the emerging field of speculative nonfiction: nonfiction on the edges of what is known. In this self-guided course, you will discover new truths as you write from possibility, intuition, and wonder. You will learn to capture the slippery quality of the individual writer’s passage through time, and the sometimes surreal quality of existence.
We will experiment with techniques such as unexpected figurative language; associative memory; leaps across time; combining genres and mediums; and the writing of daydreams, fantasies, dreams, and imaginings.
You will explore what speculative nonfiction’s methods allow you to access, as you map the territories of inner worlds and the possibilities of the world we share. As we proceed, our interest will be not in misrepresenting the true events of the past, but in using a variety of methods to explore the edges of what we know and can imagine.
What’s Included:
- 4 in-depth modules full of readings, prompts, craft lectures, and other entry points for your own speculative nonfiction writing.
- 2 hour-long video interviews exploring the possibilities of speculative nonfiction.
- 5 helpful worksheets exploring topics speculative nonfiction.
- 2 audio meditations to deepen your knowledge and offer further inspiration.
- Dozens of prompts and exercises that lend themselves to new creative work.
This Week Only…
When you buy this course during our Summer Sale (through August 4th), you’ll also get these bonuses:
- Free enrollment in our 3-week live course, Support & Structure For Your Creativity, with Elle LaMarca (a $295 value!). Live session dates are August 14th, 21th, and 28th at 12 PM Eastern, and will be recorded if you can’t attend.
- Access to a 60-minute live Q&A with instructor Joanna Penn Cooper to discuss the course contents and the craft of speculative nonfiction. Session date: Saturday, August 16th, at 12pm Eastern.
- 1 month free access to the Writers.com community.
Don’t miss out on these benefits. Enroll today!
100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
If for any reason you are not satisfied with the course, you may request a full refund within 14 days, no questions asked.
This course includes:
4 course modules full of readings, prompts, and craft lectures.
2 hourlong video interviews.
7 helpful handouts and guided audio meditations.
Dozens of prompts and exercises to inspire you.
Perfect If: You want to write nonfiction that explores beyond the known.
Open To: Nonfiction writers and aspiring nonfiction writers of all levels.
$149.00
$149.00Enroll Now
100% money-back guarantee for 14 days, no questions asked.
Already purchased? Log in to access
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Meet Your Instructor
Joanna Penn Cooper
Joanna Penn Cooper is the author of The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014), a book of lyrical prose vignettes, and What Is a Domicile (Noctuary Press, 2014), a book of poetry. Her recent chapbooks are Wild Apples: A Flash Memoir Collection with Writing Prompts and Comfort Event, a collaboration with Todd Colby (both from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press).
Joanna holds a Ph.D. in English (American literature) from Temple University and an MFA in Poetry from New England College. She has been a frequent contributor to Good Letters, the online component of Image Journal, and her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day feature, as well as South Dakota Review, Zócalo Public Square, Open Letters Monthly, Poetry International, and other journals. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.